EEOC decides not to keep tabs on managers accused of discrimination

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission will not create a database containing information on federal managers accused of discrimination, agency officials said Wednesday. An interagency task force studying the EEO process last summer recommended that the agency create such a database. "EEOC has no plans to move forward with implementing a database containing the names and personal information of federal managers accused of employment discrimination," said an agency spokesman. Managers' groups, including the Senior Executives Association and the Federal Managers Association, had voiced concern over the proposed database. The task force recommended developing a database that included names, Social Security numbers, addresses and other personal information about federal managers accused of discrimination and employees who file complaints. The task force, created in October 1999 by the Clinton administration's National Partnership for Reinventing Government, is now defunct. The task force was supposed to issue a final report last fall on its recommendations for improving the complaints process, but time ran out on the Clinton administration before the report was issued. The task force submitted a draft report to the EEOC with its recommendations last summer. The EEOC made minimal revisions to the report to address legal issues, correct misinformation and avoid confusion, said the agency spokesman. "The draft revisions are currently being circulated to [former] members of the senior leadership council of the task force to obtain their feedback," the spokesman said. The EEOC plans to use the feedback in its ongoing efforts to reform the federal EEO process, he said.